[E&E seminars] MITEI Microbiology Series - October 15 - Bruce Rittman: The Biofilm Anode in Microbial Fuel/Electrolysis Cells

[Jameson Twomey]

Understanding the Biofilm Anode in Microbial Fuel/Electrolysis Cells  
(MXCs)

Dr. Bruce Rittman

Thursday, October 15

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

McGovern Auditorium
Whitehead Institute
Nine Cambridge Center (Kendall Square)
Cambridge, MA

Abstract

Dr. Rittmann's research program seeks to develop and utilize biofilms  
(complex assemblages of microorganisms) as reactors for the  
simultaneous detoxification of oxidized contaminants in wastewater and  
production of electricity and hydrogen gas. His work combines  
phylogenetic approaches to characterizing bacterial communities with  
engineering methods to optimize the thermodynamic efficiency of the  
reactor.

About the Speaker

Dr. Bruce Rittmann, Director of the Center for Environmental  
Biotechnology in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University,  
is an international leader in the use of microbial communities to  
provide services to society. Those services include pollution clean  
up, treatment of water and wastewater, capture of renewable energy,  
and directly improving human health. Dr. Rittmann was elected to the  
National Academy of Engineering in 2004. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, a  
recipient of the Clarke Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Water  
Science and Technology, a winner of the Huber Research Prize from  
ASCE, and one of the world's most highly cited researchers, according  
to ISI.
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